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The Sleek Face Form line features a contour, highlight & blush shade made for your skin tone. It also has a large mirror in the lid. I love all-in-one palettes like this for travelling!

All the shades in the Sleek Face Form are gorgeous and very pigmented. I didn't have a problem with any of them being chalky at all.

First, the Sleek Face Form in light has a medium warm brown that is matte for contouring. Despite the fact that it's matte, is very smooth and not the slightest bit chalky.

Next, is the highlight shade. It's a pale ivory color with finely milled glitter. The highlighting shade is very pigmented, but could look like a natural glow when applied with a light hand.

The blush shade is my favorite. It may be the prettiest blush shade I've ever seen. If you are interested in it, it can be purchased separately and is in the shade rose gold. It's a gorgeous rosy pink with gold shimmer that is more noticeable in some light than others.

The Sleek iDivine in Oh So Special features 12 shadows with a mix of matte and shimmery finishes. The shadows are supposed to have a sort of checkered texture, but my shadows came looking flat like this.

These shadows are smooth and easy to work with. The mattes were nicely pigmented and not chalky & the shimmers were gorgeous and very pigmented. Without a primer, the shadows last throughout the day, but would have to be reapplied to keep the color intensity during the night.

Most of the shadows in this palette were smooth and nicely pigmented. The matte shades apply as easily as the shimmery ones and are not chalky. The shades I had the most trouble with were Oh So Special (matte medium grey) & Storm (matte navy) these had the least color payoff of the 12.

These shadows will last through most of the day without a primer. I would suggest reapplying these shadows in the evening to freshen them up if you need them to last throughout the night. I think that the wear of these shadows is better than most drugstore eye shadows.

The Sleek I-Divine palettes are palettes of 12 eye shadows that come in all sorts of colors and finishes. This one is the I-CANDY I-Divine and is in Sleek's candy collection. Each shadow in this palette is 0.03 oz, 0.02 oz smaller than full sized Urban Decay or Mac shadows.

The I-CANDY palette features a variety of different bright, colorful shadows. I-CANDY also has a nice mix of shimmery and matte colors. I think this palette, or one like it is a nice, smaller, alternative to the large 80 shadow palettes offered by companies like BH Cosmetics or Coastal Scents.

Most of the shadows applied smoothly and were very pigmented. The shade I had the most trouble with was both of the purples, Flump & Parma Violet. I found that the matte shades applied just as easily as the shimmery shades.

This palette comes in a black plastic case with their logo on it. Most of the normal i-Divine palettes don't, but the i-CANDY has the name on the front. This one also came in a really cute box! (below)

The Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Peach Satin is a coral orange blush & the Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Pink Plum is a mauve pink.

Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blushes in Peach Satin & Pink Plum

The interesting thing about these blushes is that they are squishy. They aren't really "bouncy" like the name suggests, but it has a really cool squishy feel like the Tarte Airblush Maracuja Blush. This formula makes it difficult to apply straight out of the pan with a brush, so I suggest dotting the product on your cheeks with your finger and then blend it out with a dense brush.

Swatched in Natural Light ♥ Peach Satin (left) & Pink Plum (right)

The Dream Bouncy Blushes are not sheer, but they also aren't the most pigmented blushes on the market. Since they have a cream to powder formula, they can be built up for a more intense color payoff.

Swatched in Sunlight ♥ Peach Satin (left) & Pink Plum (right)

I don't believe these blushes are marketed as water resistant, but I found that they lasted pretty well in the pool!

The L'Oreal Infallible Shadows are basically a pressed pigment. This allows the product to be super pigmented and reflective.

Swatch in natural light

Due to the formula of the product, I suggest applying with your finger versus a brush. This allows a much more pigmented color, like in the swatches. It applies very easy and smooth with your finger and is easily blended with a basic blending brush.

Tough as Taupe

The Maybelline Color Tattoo in Tough as Taupe is a matte medium-dark taupe cream shadow. Tough as Taupe looks much lighter in the pot than it does swatched.

The formula of Tough as Taupe is great. It's creamy and easy to build up color. It lasts all day with minimal creasing and is very smudge and water proof. I find that Tough as Taupe is best used as a built up shade, as it isn't the easiest product to blend out.

Blended (left) & Built Up (right) - Natural Light

Blended (left) & Built Up (right) - Sunlight

Bad to the Bronze

The Maybelline Color Tattoo in Bad to the Bronze is a shimmery light bronze that isn't warm or cool toned. I think this makes Bad to the Bronze wearable for all eye colors and for both cool and warm skin tones.

Bad to the Bronze is much more subtle when built up than Tough as Taupe. This makes it really easy to wear as an all over shade & it also blends out to a more subtle bronze easily. Bad to the Bronze had the same great formula as Tough as Taupe.

Blended (left) & Built Up (right) - Natural Light

Blended (left) & Built Up (right) - Sunlight

Tough as Taupe VS Bad to the Bronze

Bad to the Bronze (left) & Tough as Taupe (right) - Natural Light

Bad to the Bronze (left) & Tough as Taupe (right) - Sunlight

These are not similar shades, but I thought I would just show how they compare, maybe if you are deciding between these colors.

Bad to the Bronze is shimmery, while Tough as Taupe is matte. Both would make nice lid colors, but Bad to the Bronze would probably be more flattering as a one-shadow eye look. I found that Bad to the Bronze blended out easier and looked better blended out than Tough as Taupe.

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